2.4TB disk - MBR and GPT coexist?

[Jo Rhett]

On Jan 11, 2007, at 10:00 PM, Charles Sprickman wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Jo Rhett wrote:
>
>>>>> Not any one that I've ever seen in commodity disks.  Yes, on  
>>>>> big  fiber channel disk cabinets.  No to 6-8 drive raid  
>>>>> controllers.
>>>> I'd be very surprised if you can't.  You can certainly do it  
>>>> with Areca (arcmsr(4)), HP (ciss(4)), IBM ServeRAID (ips(4)),  
>>>> although the details vary.
>>
>> On Jan 11, 2007, at 8:02 PM, Charles Sprickman wrote:
>>> I can confirm 3Ware controllers also work that way.
>>
>> Please enlighten me.  I see no such options in the BIOS menu.
>
> I've done it in 3DM2, but look at pages 23+24 (printed page  
> numbers) here and the stuff regarding setting up a seperate boot  
> volume:
>
> http://www.3ware.com/support/UserDocs/3ware9590SEUsrGuide.pdf

Those are CLI functions.  Which means you have to boot to run the  
CLI, so cart->horse.

Sorry for being terse, but I have to solve the boot problem which is  
what started this conversation.

For data arrays not part of boot, I could simply use GPT and be done  
with it.  I only need small volumes to solve the boot problem.

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Jo Rhett
senior geek
Silicon Valley Colocation